Drawer-pull



(No Model.)

H. D. BELL.

DRAWER PULL. No. 579,567. Patented Mar. 30, 1897.

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HENDERSON DAVIS BELL, OF HARON, PENNSYLVANIA.

DRAWER-PU LL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 579,557, dated March 30, 1897.

Application filed July 14, 1896. Serial No. 599,187. (No model.)

T0 or whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENDERSON DAVIS BELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sharon, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drawer-Pulls, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention is an improvement in drawerpulls, and is intended to provide a secure fastening for the shanks of the same to take the place of the ordinary nut engaging the threaded ends of the shanks, which penetrate the material of the drawer.

As is generally known, many articles of furniture, such as desks, bureaus, and the like, have a number of drawers providedwith metallic pulls,which comprise a plate adapted to be secured to the drawer-face by means of screw-threaded projections passing through the drawer and engaged by nuts upon the inner face, and to this faceplate the pull or handle is secured. These nuts, which hold the face-plate in place, are continually coming loose and dropping oif, and it is annoying, and when the nuts are lost it is difficult to replace them; and it is the object of my invention to remedy this defect and to provide a simple construction which will render displacement of the parts very unlikely, if not impossible.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a drawer provided with a pull of ordinary construction. Fig' 2 is a view of the inner face of this drawer, and Fig. 3 a sectional view. Fig. 4 is a modification.

In the drawings the faceplate is shown at A and the pivoted pull or handle at B. The face-plate is provided with two projections a, one at each end, and these pass entirely through the material of the drawer-face, as

is usually the case. Instead of threading these ends, however, and screwing nuts upon them I provide the inner faces of the projections with grooves slightly inclined or tapering, as shown at b, and then I insert a key or wedge-plate O, which is provided with inclined ends, and these inclined ends engage the grooves Z) of the projections a, and thus prevent the withdrawal of the projections.

The wedge is in turn held in place by a tack orpin d. The wedge-plate is not only provided with the inclined ends, but is preferably made wedgeshaped from top to bottom on its outer face to more securely hold the projections.

In Fig. at I have shown a modification in i which the plate 0 is of greater length than the space between the projections and is cut away to form V-shaped recesses, which receive the ends of the projections to engage the edges of the walls of the recesses in the 

